The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 32
Soon afterwards the young people settled in a fine house which Friedlin had bought, and had a garden and meadows, a fishpond, and a hill covered with vines, and were as happy as the day was long.
Who acts: young people, hill, day · What happens: settle, buy, have, cover, be · To what, where: fine house, garden, hill
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people, hill, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 settled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 settled | nsubj |
| 6 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 settled | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | Friedlin | Friedlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bought | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bought | aux |
| 14 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 settled | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meadows | cc |
| 21 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 garden | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fishpond | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fishpond | det |
| 24 | fishpond | fishpond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 garden | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 happy | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 happy | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hill | det |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 happy | nsubj |
| 29 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hill | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 vines | case |
| 31 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 covered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 happy | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 happy | cc |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 happy | cop |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 happy | advmod |
| 36 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 settled | parataxis |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 long | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 long | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 long | cop |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 happy | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | the young people | a fine house | afterwards property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | buy | past · perfect · passive | a fine house | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the young people not said here | a garden and meadows and a fishpond | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | a hill not said here | with vines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with vine=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a hill | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the day | long property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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